Teerabhat Ruensiri
It's a film with an ordinary quality. Probably the most 'accessible' French film I've ever watched.To elaborate and clarify, I rate a film 6/10 when it's not a bad film but it has nothing new to offer to its own genre much less the cinema as a whole. It is recommendable only on the ground that one is a hardcore fan of the genre, theme, director etc. To acquire higher point, the film must contribute something to its own genre or theme. It doesn't have to invent something new but it must have a high quality over all. A practical example would be a film that define the genre of that particular year.
juliancasa
Realistic, funny, honest, gritty with fantastic music! What more could you ask for? I wish I could find the soundtrack for this as each song fits each moment perfectly (whichever emotion it is trying to portray). I found myself caught between laughing & (almost) crying throughout the entire film. I am sure each person can relate to something in at least one of the characters... the angsty rebellious teenager, the hopeless romantic, the 'drop out', the couple who has fallen out of love and the doctor who is stuck in a job he doesn't love and a relationship he is not happy in.The acting in this movie is simply fantastic.It is structured around five key moments in a family's life and is such a fun, inspiring movie which plays with all of the different relationships between father & son, mother & daughter and of course, husband & wife. It may sound intense or grim, but in fact I found this film to be (along with some intense moments of course), full of light and fluffy feel-good moments too.You will see each character's different perspective on life and how they grow, which makes interesting watching. From the start to the end, I just loved it.Don't be put off by the subtitles - you don't need to understand French to understand this wonderful movie!
writers_reign
What attracted me to this one was the billing. Jacques Gamblin who I have yet to see give a bad or even mediocre performance plus Zabout Breitman who directed one of the finest French films of the last few years, Se Souvenirs des belles choses, and is an equally fine actress plus Deborah Francois, the very promising newcomer who scored heavily as the Page-Turner a couple of years ago. There's not that much to it; we're privy to the highs and lows of a family over a period of several years; they laugh, they cry, they fight, there are crises to be dealt with and they are; The penultimate scene is just Zabou sitting silently and I can still see it forty eight hours later. Not, of course, for everyone but then what is.
jphdesmarest
Yes we've already watched this kind of movie... Yes the different "life issues" and/or "family issues" that are exposed are quite classic...But I really enjoyed watching this movie. The actors and actresses are very good, the musical atmosphere is great too, and the situations or dialogs made me laughed quite often.It's a typical french movie, describing the different parts of a human life, from first life experiments to "old age" crises. The love that exists in the family looks real, pure, and is stronger than all the ordeals the different family members will encounter. A real sweet time I had by watching this movie, you can go!
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